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Unpopular opinion: deleting your Reddit account is 100% justified, but mass-scrambling all of your posts and comments with an online tool is worse than leaving them as is (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I might get "cancelled" for this, but hear me out:
If you remove your account bad actors won't be able to identify you unless they put in the effort. Reddit staff will revert popular comments and posts to the way they were before the Blackout. Mass-scrambling your posts and comments with a "f*ck Spez", followed by a long chain of "A"s or whatever, annoys people who are just trying to find an answer to something on Reddit, and it doesn't help anybody except the user's feelings.
The preservation of information comes above some moral feeling.
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think that's correct. IIRC, it means you have the right to be forgotten--meaning that if you delete your content they can't (legally) restore it. It doesn't mean they'll do the deleting for you; they'll just send you a file of the stuff you have that you can then use to guide the deletion process.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gotcha, I was thinking they had to go one step beyond and provide the tools required to "make it easy".